Drill press handles - video

[Jon]

Drill press handles. By RP Mechanics. 14:28 video:

[Bony]

Golf balls are an easy cheap alternative. Drill 2mm undersize, use a lathe to centre the hole and press on.

[NortonDommi]

Golf balls are an easy cheap alternative. Drill 2mm undersize, use a lathe to centre the hole and press on.

When I was much, much younger we used o cut golf balls open for the center and between the skin and the core was about 1.000,000 miles of thin rubber wound around the core like a ball of string.
If you were real careful you could cut the skin off and wrap it up tight in a bit of thin rag. This could be used to bugger up the hair-do of thine enemy at the movies if you could get a seat behind them.
Have golf balls changed?

[Bony]

All plastic now and more workshop friendly. I use them a lot for handles. Good for file ends too.

[NortonDommi]

Thanks for that Bony. You may have gathered that I don't play golf.

[Bony]

Nor do I, waste of a good walk.